Articles: Around the World in a Day: International Participation in the World's Columbian Exposition; The Bulgarian Colony of Southwestern Illinois, 1900-1920; Community Dynamics and Educational Decisions: Establishing Public Schools in...

Articles: Organizing the Workers in a Steel Company Town: The Union Movement in Joliet, 1870-1920; Socialist Publishing in Illinois: Charles H. Kerr & Company of Chicago, 1886-1928; Smile, and Work, and Serve: The Legacy of an Illinois Officer...

'"Illustrated with portraits and views." Running title: Kane County History, Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Published by The Pioneer Pub. Co: Chicago, IL. Highlights communities and history of numerous villages, cities and...

Ruffed Grouse [Partridge] bird diorama with painted background. Includes raccoon, trees, leaves. Shown in the setting of a "forest of arden". This refers to Harlowarden in Joliet Illinois the estate of Harlow Higinbotham. Field Columbian Museum.

Illinois is prominent in the early history of the West. Concise descriptions of places, historical facts, and biographies of living persons with close relations to the state. Illustrations include portraits, maps and buildings.

Articles: Oliver Dennett Grover's Thy Will Be Done; Dorothea Dix and the Founding of Illinois' First Mental Hospital; Leonard Swett: Lincoln's Legacy to the Chicago Bar; Joliet's Enterprising Universalists: the Church and the City in Late...